God of Music

I am sitting here in my friend’s car in the southwestern part of the state of Michigan. I'm listening to the melody play through the speakers and can’t help but notice the beauty of the rhythm. I have come to realize that something so simple as a constant beat can point me in the direction of correct thinking. It may seem silly to say such things, but music speaks a simple truth to me; a truth that I have been learning for a few months about the secular life and whether or not it exists.

I cannot remove myself from this so-called ‘secular’ world and still fulfill all that God desires me to fulfill. How can I separate the things of God and the things not of God as if there remained some nook or cranny in which He is has not unconditionally claimed? The answer is that I will never be able to sift through the different subjects, careers, types of music, ratings of films, books, or periodicals and be able to pinpoint those things to which there is an absence of spiritual or religious permeation; for that is indeed what the word ‘secular’ means as defined by the Oxford American dictionary.

If an activity or attitude exists in which there is absolutely no spiritual residue, then the God who claims all is not actually God. By separating anything from the hand of God we are separating the Almighty from His word. I can accept a secular realm if I accept that 1) God is a liar and 2) ultimately there is no God. How can I conclude the second? If God is that which nothing greater can possibly be conceived, and I should conceive of a God that would have involvement in every aspect of every thing, then my own concept would, in fact, be God and the "God" of some world where a dichotomy exists between his involvement and some secular realm would unquestionably dismiss the title of "God" to be granted in the first place.

The God that I have conceived is indeed the God of all things and the God of reality. The God that I have conceived is the very God that has revealed Himself in Scripture. Hebrews 6:11 tells me that it is impossible for God to lie, so I don’t have to worry about my omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, immutable God not being who He says He is.

The beauty of this simple musical beat may seem unconnected to God, but I can see His beauty through the logic and order of the tune even though a curse word just played through the speakers. It doesn’t matter of the songwriter gives a rip about the beauty of pure lips because the God of all creation cannot be escaped even by those who try to escape Him. The world we live in is the only created world; formed and claimed by the One and only God.